3 d. ago 'Forgotten' Al Pacino classic film is a 'work of art' and 'teaches us to be good people'

Al Pacino won the Best Actor Oscar for his role in the 1992 classic movie Scent of a Woman, which also received a Best Picture nomination at the Academy Awards

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3 d. ago 'Forgotten' Al Pacino classic film 'teaches us all to be better people' on BBC this weekend

Winning Al Pacino an Academy Award for Best Actor, the film will be broadcast on BBC Two on Sunday, April 13.

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4 d. ago Melbourne cinema says threats caused it to cancel fundraising screening of Oscar

Exclusive: Jewish Council of Australia’s Sophia Kagan says she was told there were protests planned against the screening of No Other Land in ElsternwickElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastA fundraising screening of the Oscar-winning documentary film on the Israeli displacement of the Palestinian community, No Other Land, has been cancelled by a Melbourne cinema after organisers the Jewish Council of Australia said the cinema received threats.JCA had arranged with Classic Cinema in Elsternwick to host the screening of the Palestinian-Israeli Academy Award-winning film on 1 May, which was to be followed by a discussion between a Palestinian and an Israeli speaker, with one of the film-makers recording a dedicated message for the event.Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Oscar fans christen brand new category the ‘Tom Cruise Award’ due to obvious link

The Academy Award for stunt design will be handed out from 2027

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5 d. ago After losing homes and businesses, LA wildfire victims face a hurdle to rebuilding: Trump’s tariffs

The uncertainty is keeping contractors from buying materials and discouraging would-be Good Samaritans from offering discountsCory Singer, co-owner of the homebuilding firm Dolan Design & Build, raced to start construction as quickly as possible in the wake of the Los Angeles wildfires. He was determined to stay ahead of the demand surge he saw coming and eager to help his clients begin to rebuild their lives.The firm broke ground in the Pacific Palisades on Saturday – one of the first companies to do so. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Academy Awards to give Oscar for best stunt design starting in 2027

Effort for new award category was lead by Fall Guy director David Leitch, who was also a stuntman for Brad PittAfter many years of impassioned calls for an Oscar recognizing the art of the stunt, the film academy has decided to give it an official award.An achievement in stunt design prize will be added starting with the 100th Academy Awards, which will recognize films released in 2027, the film academy said on Thursday. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Academy Awards to give Oscar for best stunt design starting in 2028

Effort for new award category was lead by The Fall Guy director David Leitch, who was also a stuntman for Brad PittThe 25 best stunts in cinema – ranked!The Oscars are set to recognise stunts for the first time, announcing a new category for achievement in stunt design after many years of impassioned campaigning from within the industry.Best stunt design will be a new category at the Academy Awards at the 100th ceremony in 2028, which will recognise films released in 2027, the film academy said on Thursday. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago The 2025 Academy of Country Music Awards are coming up. Here's who's nominated and how to watch

The 2025 Academy of Country Music Awards are just around the corner

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5 d. ago Interior Design Masters series 6: who are the designers on BBC show in 2025?

Interior Design Masters is back for a sixth series on BBC 🧶

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6 d. ago 20 brilliant films that should have won the Oscar for Best Picture

...and the movies that beat them

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1 week ago Noel Clarke allegations had ‘high public interest’, Guardian editor tells court

Bafta endorsement could have escalated actor’s allegedly abusive behaviour towards women, Kath Viner saidThe editor-in-chief of the Guardian, Katharine Viner, has told the high court there was a “very high public interest” in reporting allegations made against Noel Clarke after he received a special Bafta award.In a witness statement, Viner said she believed it was conceivable that the actor’s endorsement by the British academy film awards could lead to an escalation of his allegedly abusive behaviour towards women. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Horror film with 'one of the greatest twists of all time' on BBC One this week

The 2019 psychological horror, written and directed by Academy Award winner Jordan Peele, is due to be broadcast on BBC One on Friday night

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2 w. ago Alan Carr: 'I’ve got no filter, it has got me into so much trouble'

The comedian’s input in proceedings is a huge part of what makes Interior Design Masters, but he admits he sometimes has to ‘bite my tongue’ as the show returns for its sixth series

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2 w. ago Interior Design Masters star Alan Carr: 'I’ve got no filter, it has got me into so much trouble'

The comedian’s input in proceedings is a huge part of what makes Interior Design Masters, but he admits he sometimes has to ‘bite my tongue’ as the show returns for its sixth series

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2 w. ago Halle Berry says Oscars not ‘designed’ for Black women: ‘We have to stop coveting that’

Monster’s Ball star is only Black woman to win best actress Oscar in 97-year-old history of Academy Awards

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2 w. ago Halle Berry says Oscars not designed for black female actors ‘so we have to stop coveting them’

The only black female actor to have won the leading actress award was speaking on documentary Number One on the Call Sheet along with Taraji P Henson and Whoopi GoldbergHalle Berry has said she now believes her historic Oscars in 2002, for Monster’s Ball, was an anomaly, and that fellow black female actors should therefore stop “coveting” Academy Awards.Berry, now 58, is the only black woman to have won the leading actress Oscar in the awards’ nearly 100 year history. Cynthia Erivo’s nomination for Wicked earlier this year marks the first time a woman of colour has been nominated for the leading actress Oscar more than once (she was previously nominated for Harriet). Only 15 black women have ever been in contention for the prize. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago One of the best thrillers of the 21st Century is airing on TV tonight

The film in question was nominated for three Academy Awards

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2 w. ago ‘This is no isolated event’: attack on Palestinian director brings rising settler violence into focus

Activists fear unprecedented levels of violence, with the apparent backing of Israeli authorities, part of drive to force Palestinians out of the West BankIt was around 6pm, just after its Palestinian residents had finished their daily Ramadan fast, dozens of masked Israeli settlers, armed with batons, knives and assault rifles, entered the West Bank village of Susiya in the rural Masafer Yatta area of the south Hebron hills. Among them were a group of Israeli soldiers who escorted the settlers into the village where Hamdan Ballal, one of the four directors of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, lives.About three weeks after appearing on stage at the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles to accept the Oscar, Ballal has become the victim of the very violence shown in his film. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘I heard he won the Oscar but he had to give it back’: Will Smith gets jiggy with the Slap

Three years after the infamous incident at the Academy Awards, Smith is continuing to rap about his attack on Chris Rock on a new albumWhen you have embarrassed yourself in front of the entire world, as Will Smith did during the 2022 Oscars, you find yourself confronted with two choices. Either you can slink off embarrassed and wait however long it takes for the furore to die down, or you can make an entire album about it.You probably don’t need to be told which option Smith took. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Ella Langley leads 2025 ACM Awards nominations. Beyoncé and Miranda Lambert are shut out

Ella Langley leads the nominees for the 2025 Academy of Country Music Awards with eight nods to her name

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